• Contact: Ms. Sabin Bieri
  • Address: Hallerstrasse 10 CH-3012 Bern
  • Phone: +41 31 631 88 22
  • Email: info@cde.unibe.ch
  • Web: www.cde.unibe.ch
  • Members:
    CDE

CDE

CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT

Member since: 2011

Working towards these commitments

Respect, protect and strengthen the land rights of women and men living in poverty, ensuring that no one is deprived of the use and control of the land on which their well-being and human dignity depend, including through eviction, expulsion or exclusion, and with compulsory changes to tenure undertaken only in line with international law and standards on human rights.
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Secure Tenure Rights

Ensure transparency and accountability, through unhindered and timely public access to all information that may contribute to informed public debate and decision-making on land issues at all stages, and through decentralization to the lowest effective level, to facilitate participation, accountability and the identification of locally appropriate solutions
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Transparent and accessible information

Prevent and remedy land grabbing, respecting traditional land use rights and local livelihoods, and ensuring that all large-scale initiatives that involve the use of land, water and other natural resources comply with human rights and environmental obligations and are based on: the free, prior and informed consent of existing land users; a thorough assessment of economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts with respect to both women and men; democratic planning and independent oversight; and transparent contracts that respect labour rights, comply with social and fiscal obligations and are specific and binding on the sharing of responsibilities and benefits. Where adverse impacts on human rights and legitimate tenure rights have occurred, concerned actors should provide for, and cooperate in, impartial and competent mechanisms to provide remedy, including through land restitution and compensation.
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Effective actions against land grabbing

Mission

CDE's  mission is to produce and share knowledge for sustainable development. By carrying out research in cooperation with partners in the global South, it explores problems and potentials of global change, develops innovative solutions and learns from research and development outcomes. CDE adheres to the values of inter- and intra-generational equity inherent in the underlying economic, social, and environmental dimensions of sustainability.

In CDE's vision, concrete progress towards sustainable development is achieved at local and global levels owing to more knowledge-based negotiations and value-conscious decision making. Thereby, sustainable development oriented research, promoting innovative thinking and mutual learning within and beyond science, represents a key role for success.

Objectives

CDE aims to contribute to sustainable development though generation and dissemination of relevant knowledge on natural resources and associated economic, social and ecological processes. It aims to empower stakeholders in sustainable development through research, innovation, education, capacity building and fostering of learning processes at all levels.

Constituencies

CDE's constituencies include stakeholders in natural resource management and sustainable development. Policy makers and decision makers at different levels, researchers, universities, extension organisations, development cooperation agencies, farmer organisations and farmers.

  • Contact: Ms. Sabin Bieri
  • Address: Hallerstrasse 10 CH-3012 Bern
  • Phone: +41 31 631 88 22
  • Email: info@cde.unibe.ch
  • Web: www.cde.unibe.ch
  • Members:
    CDE
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LAND MATRIX INITIATIVE

28 November 2019

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